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Tue. 8/27/13 6:07pm
Parq:
Sigh. I know the feeling. My parents also claimed to have been there. Turns out they were actually at a Slappy White gig at the Royal Theater in Baltimore. Their confusion is understandable, I suppose.

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:08pm
Doug Schulkind:
Lewis said "Eastland" there (as in racist Mississippi U.S. Senator James Eastland), not "Islam."

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:09pm
Jeff Golick:
John Lewis is such a freakin stud. Then, as now.

Evenin' Doug and Drummers! Let's fulfill the Dream in every way we can!

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:12pm
Matt from Springfield:
I surprised to hear on the news that Mr. Lewis is actually the last surviving speaker of the March on Washington [for Jobs and Freedom]. Though I guess even he is up in years now.

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:13pm
Doug Schulkind:
I read that, too, Matt. Many of the participants dies in the early '90s I just learned.

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:24pm
Doug Schulkind:
Nice to hear James Farmer namecheck William L. Moore, the white postal carrier from Baltimore who went on a one-person march through the South carrying a sandwich-board sign reading "Equal rights for all" & "Mississippi or Bust." Moore was shot dead on his solo march just 70 miles in.

Moore was assassinated just a few months before the march, in April.

Tue. 8/27/13 6:25pm
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Never found Joan's harmony worked with Zimmy's voice.

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:26pm
Matt from Springfield:
Woooo! Old school Rob Zimm with Miss Baez!
I just saw Joan this summer at Wolf Trap--she doesn't hit high notes as high as she used to, but she's still GOT IT! Great singer and performer.

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:27pm
Doug Schulkind:
"Pawn in the Game" was a controversial choice because it largely absolves Medgar Evers' murderer (Brian De La Beckwith) as a poor white ignorant being using by the elite power structure.

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:27pm
Matt from Springfield:
@Doug: "Innis was elected National Chairman of CORE in 1968, and has held the position ever since." That in itself is an "Ick!", horrified even more to learn he's turned their good name into a right-wing lobby...

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:29pm
Doug Schulkind:
@Matt
Back in the '80s, Innis was lobbying FOR the apartheid regime in South Africa. I feel dirty just typing that sentence.

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:40pm
Jeff Golick:
Ew: "In 2009, EMI Publishing became the administrator of the King copyright, after a deal the music publishing giant struck with the King family for an undisclosed sum."

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:41pm
Doug Schulkind:
Max Roach named a song and later a political movement "Now Is the Time."

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:45pm
Matt from Springfield:
A family friend of mine works for the National Park Service, and he's most publicly noted for researching Dr. King's exact position on the Lincoln Memorial, where a memorial inscription is now carved:articles.orlandosentinel.com...

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:45pm
Jeff Golick:
It is hard for me to fathom the courage of this man.

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:46pm
Matt from Springfield:
@Parq:
"Contract 13-90646 sent for final submission,
Contract 13-90646 sent for final submission,
Thank legal counsel almighty,
Contract 13-90646 sent for final submission!!"

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:47pm
Doug Schulkind:
That Facebook message alert tone you just heard WAS ON THE ORIGINAL RECORDING!

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:57pm
Jeff Golick:
What's astonishing to me is how the request is for America to merely live up to its own promises and stated ideals/rights. Nothing beyond what is clearly already granted, if our founding documents are to be taken at face value.

Tue. 8/27/13 6:58pm
kat330:
Just saying to Philo here what a truly amazing orator King was.

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Tue. 8/27/13 6:59pm
Doug Schulkind:
The FBI released a photo of Rustin meeting with King while the latter was taking a bath. Trying to smear the men as homosexuals, which, of course, Rustin was openly.